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Red Letter Media |OT| of Movies, Murderers, and Pizza Rolls

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Zero-Crescent

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BatDan said:
That entire last video was amazing.

Any Japanese experts able to decipher the back of the box and the songs?
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I can read the kana that promises "Action, Suspense, Romance, and Humor!" and describes it as a "Music Drama," but not much else. I'm looking through JASRAC to see if there's an entry for it (Unfortunately, there are a lot of songs named "SOS").

EDIT: Eh, decided to give up on JASRAC for now, since it doesn't show release years. Tried to search for the production company, "Aurora Production," but it's too generic of a name. The closest hit is probably a Swiss company that produces videos and books for The Family International (AKA the Children of God cult), but they don't list this video in their products page. It seems doubtful that they're related to this video. Check Erigu's post below. Apparently, they had a Japanese subsidiary at one point.
 
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trab pu kcip

Member
chalkitdown1 said:
Is it sad that I'm instantly cheered up whenever these guy release a new video, no matter how shitty a day I'm having?
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you're not alone. I was actually just thinking a few minutes ago that if they ever stopped making these videos, I would not know what do to with my life.
it just never fails, always makes me laugh no matter what.
 
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trab pu kcip

Member
Lionel Mandrake said:
I wouldn't mind some gifs of the monkey montage in SOS. Specifically the monkey kid on the bike giving the Luigi death stare to the camera.

From the video comments:

A YouTube playlist of the full original English version of SOS.

Edit 2: Goddamn, the anti-evolution song is catchy as shit.
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monkeywnk6d.gif


monkey24ashy.gif
 
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Lionel Mandrake

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trab pu kcip said:
monkeywnk6d.gif


monkey24ashy.gif
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Yes, thank you kindly.

Guess RLM was wrong about the one video being about abstinence.

In 1976,[3] David Berg introduced a new proselytization method called Flirty Fishing (or FFing), which encouraged female members to show God's love by engaging in sexual activity with potential converts. Flirty Fishing was practiced by members of Berg's inner circle starting in 1973, and was later introduced to the general membership in 1976. By 1978, it was widely practiced by members of the group. In some areas, Flirty Fishers used escort agencies to meet people. According to TFI, as a result of Flirty Fishing, "over 100,000 received God's gift of salvation through Jesus, and some chose to live the life of a disciple and missionary".[7] According to data provided by TFI to researcher Bill Bainbridge, from 1974 until 1987, members had sexual contact with 223,989 people while practicing Flirty Fishing.[8] Flirty Fishing also resulted in the births of many children, including Karen Zerby's son, Ricky Rodriguez (aka Davidito), who committed suicide after murdering a female member of the cult who had sexually abused him as a toddler. Children born as result of Flirty Fishing were referred to as "Jesus Babies". By the end of 1981, more than 300 "Jesus Babies" had been born.
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They were literally whoring themselves for God.

This is a term that TFI members use to describe their intimate, sexual relationship with Jesus. TFI describes the "Loving Jesus" teachings as a radical form of bridal theology.[18] It is their understanding of the Bible that the followers of Christ are his bride, called to love and serve him with the fervor of a wife. They took bridal theology further than mainstream Christians by encouraging members to imagine that Jesus is having sex with them during sexual intercourse and masturbation. Male members were encouraged to visualize themselves as women, in order to avoid a homosexual relationship with Jesus. Many publications and messages TFI members received from the spirit work and even claim to be from Jesus himself refer to and elaborate on this intimate, sexual relation that they believe Jesus desires and needs from his church, and TFI in particular being his special "bride" in graphic poetry, guided visualizations, artwork [8] and songs [9], and more. Some literature was unable to be brought into more conservative countries for fear they might be classified at customs as pornography [10]. The literature that first revealed this new view of Jesus and his desire for a sexual relationship with believers was slightly edited and made available to 12 & 14 year olds [11], and then further edited and published in mild terms for children [12].
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Jesus fucking Christ.
 
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Aiii

So not worth it
Rich Evans is an amazing improv comedian.

How he just pulled out that prank call is beyond me. Well done, Sir.
 
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chalkitdown1

Member
Oh god, that SOS video! The way the insanity just heightened and heightened as they slowly figured out what it was. One of my favourite RLM moments ever.
 
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Lionel Mandrake

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plasmawave said:
So that SOS video was in Japanese but it wasn't necessarily produced in Japan? Am I getting that right?
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It seems like it was made to be dubbed in multiple languages, which is why there's no audible vocals outside of the songs or much text. So there's the Japanese one RLM watched, the English one, and a French one that we know about. The church likely intended to distribute it to as many nations as possible to recruit new members.
 
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Erigu

Member
Lionel Mandrake said:
It seems like it was made to be dubbed in multiple languages, which is why there's no audible vocals outside of the songs or much text.
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Yep. Although I think it really was shot in Japan. I'll try and see if I can confirm...


EDIT:
Erigu said:
The same guys ("Aurora Productions") made a similar video called "25 Fun de... Toki wa Semaru!!" one year later.
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I believe this is the English version of one of the songs included in that second video ("グリーン・ドア").
I'll see if I can find more of those...

... Yep, one more here. Not the Japanese version ("人類に警告666!"), but it looks like it's the opening song in both versions.
Sure looks like a Japanese production.

EDIT2:
And here's another one ("きっと、ここは天国"). Three down, five to go!
 
davepoobond

davepoobond

you can't put a price on sparks
hilarious episode as always. very glad they didn't ditch the wheel idea forever


that SOS video has so much background to it. they could probably have done a whole episode on it talking about the different versions and stuff
 
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Erigu

Member
Erigu said:
So that "SOS" thing apparently is a 1989 Japanese propaganda/music video for the Family International (although they were known as "Ai no Kazoku" ("the family of love") in Japan, back then).
The same guys ("Aurora Productions") made a similar video called "25 Fun de... Toki wa Semaru!!" one year later.
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Found a reference by the crazy ones themselves:
It seems it could greatly increase sales of the Teen Videos ("S.O.S" & "20 Minutes To Go!") during the Christmas season & be a lot faster & easier if, rather than trying to sell parents with the idea of "an alternative to rock music", you simply present them with a "great new Christmas gift idea". People are always wondering what to give their kids for Christmas & they probably dread long hours of searching through crowded department stores, so if we can bring a new & exciting Christmas gift right to their doors they will surely be thrilled & thankful.
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"20 minutes"? Guess the English version is missing a song or two...

(So much stuff on that site... That one is quite "amusing".)


EDIT: Oh my.
 
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trab pu kcip

Member
Forsete said:
Oh thank god WOTW has returned!
That phone call. Oh my god how can he just come up with that stuff? :D
Rich really is a genius.

Maybe it was already posted, but I think I found the webzone of Fred Levine Productions. :p
http://www.fredlevineproductions.com/
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for a second I was confused and thought it would be the other guy's webzone. then I was disappointed there were no aliens at all. I wanna see the other guy's webzone now D:
 
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Archaix

Drunky McMurder
Rich Evans inverts Y Axis, lives up to the hype.


So...do they know literally nothing about this game? And streaming it to twitch? That usually turns out for the best. Such a welcoming community to newcomers.
 
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